>This is just a special case of a general glut of the very great4st works
>in every art form. Rising population and rising literacy equals way too
>much not just good but great stuff for everyone to even begin to take
>in.
>
You keep saying that, and it just doesn't compute. I mean most people do
not read great literature or listen to great music -- and they don't do
so for reasons completely other than that there's just too much great
stuff for them to take in.
And then who says you have to take it all in.
And then it's not an issue that there's too much great stuff -- but that the need, idea and experience of beauty has now been suspect for one hundred years and that there is very little contemporaneous stuff that answers to that need--other than commerical art which exploits beauty but neither celebrates it nor understands it.
We need our beauty -- our clarion call. The last place I have heard it is in some of the blues/jazz of the U.S. and in the music of Latin America.
Joanna